Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- References -- Part I: Introduction to environmental virtue ethics -- Chapter 1: Contemporary virtue ethics -- 1.1 The main trends of modern virtue ethics -- 1.1.1 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Contemporary virtue ethics in the face of the environmental crisis -- 2.1 Environmental virtue ethics as a new area of philosophical reflection -- 2.1.1 The normative nature of EVE -- 2.1.2 Summary -- 2.2 Objections to environmental virtue ethics -- 2.2.1 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The language of virtue ethics -- 3.1 Preliminary terminological distinctions -- 3.1.1 'Arete' and translation problems -- 3.1.2 The opposite of virtue -- 3.1.3 Summary -- 3.2 Postulate of a return1 to the language of virtues -- 3.2.1 A voice for the restoration of virtue language in environmental ethics -- 3.2.2 Features of environmental virtue discourse -- 3.2.3 The richness of the language of environmental virtues -- 3.2.4 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Contemporary concepts of environmental virtue ethics -- References -- Chapter 4: Classic environmental virtue ethics -- 4.1 The foundation of the classic environmental virtue ethics -- 4.1.1 Thoreau as a representative of American Transcendentalism -- 4.1.2 Thoreau's inspiration from Aristotelian virtue ethics -- 4.1.3 Thoreau's inspiration from Far Eastern philosophy -- 4.1.4 Summary -- 4.2 Virtues in classic environmental virtue ethics -- 4.2.1 Moderation and simplicity15 -- 4.2.2 Freedom -- 4.2.3 Respect for nature -- 4.2.4 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Naturalistic, teleological, and pluralistic environmental virtue ethics -- 5.1 The foundation of naturalistic, teleological, and pluralistic environmental virtue ethics.

5.1.1 The naturalistic nature of environmental virtue ethics -- 5.1.2 The teleological nature of environmental virtue ethics -- 5.1.3 The pluralistic nature of environmental virtue ethics -- 5.1.4 Summary -- 5.2 Virtues in naturalistic, teleological, and pluralistic environmental virtue ethics -- 5.2.1 What are environmental virtues? -- 5.2.2 Strategies for specifying environmental virtues -- 5.2.3 The typology of virtues -- 5.2.4 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Narrative environmental virtue ethics -- 6.1 The foundation of narrative environmental virtue ethics -- 6.1.1 The narrative concept of environmental virtue ethics -- 6.1.2 The importance of narrative -- 6.1.3 Phronesis - practical wisdom -- 6.1.4 Narrative as a response to relativism -- 6.1.5 Moral education -- 6.1.6 The 'as-if' experience -- 6.1.7 Summary -- 6.2 Virtues in a narrative conception of environmental virtue ethics -- 6.2.1 A narrative conception of virtue -- 6.2.2 Three types of virtue -- 6.2.3 The place of virtue in the public sphere -- 6.2.4 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Presentation of the universalistic, positive, and practical environmental virtue ethics -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the three concepts of environmental virtue ethics (EVE) -- 7.1 Evaluation of the classic concept of EVE -- 7.1.1 Summary -- 7.2 Evaluation of the naturalistic, teleological, and pluralistic conception of EVE -- 7.2.1 Summary -- 7.3 Evaluation of the narrative conception of EVE -- 7.3.1 Summary -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: A proposal of a universalistic, positive, and practical environmental virtue ethics -- 8.1 A universalistic, positive, and practical environmental virtue ethics -- 8.1.1 The universalistic character of virtue -- 8.1.1.1 Philosophical arguments for universalism -- 8.1.1.2 The empirical argument.

8.1.1.3 Universalism in environmental protection and moral education -- 8.1.2 The positive character of virtue -- 8.1.2.1 The heuristic of fear -- 8.1.2.2 Fear as a factor that deprives one of agency -- 8.1.2.3 Why is positive input crucial? -- 8.1.3 The practical character of virtue -- 8.1.4 Summary -- 8.2 The revised postulate to return to the language of virtues -- 8.2.1 The influence on environmental discourse of the Enlightenment and Romantic view of nature -- 8.2.2 Overcoming dualism -- 8.2.3 Environmental skills - from being-in-the-world to acting-in-the-world -- 8.2.4 Summary -- 8.3 Moral education as one of the pillars of the universalist, positive, and practical concept of environmental virtue ethics -- 8.3.1 The social dimension of virtue -- 8.3.2 The importance of education in environmental virtue ethics -- 8.3.3 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.